Basically it would treat motion tracking devices the same as aircraft, so they are legal as long as you don’t use them the day you plan to hunt. It would still be legal to find a bull at night with thermals and then hunt him the next day as long as you don’t use the thermals after midnight.
Remember, regional caps were never part of the proposal. The only correct way to do that would be to have pick your region for a few years to get the data on where hunters are going. In those few years, R6 and R7 would likely suffer big time because you'd have large numbers of hunters in those...
We all recognized that the NR combo wasn’t doing mule deer any favors, but that is set in statute. It would be a huge legislative task to get rid of and again, it’s money the dept relies on.
It would be, and that was part of the original thinking behind pick your region. I would prefer not to potentially increase the pressure in R6 and 7 even more for a couple of years based on the assumption that regional caps would be implemented a few years down the road. If the caps didn’t get...